The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union

[We] are treated as the smallest children are treated in the kindergarten. -Hannan Rose, Union committee member and JACARI president, quoted in the Daily Mail, October 13, 1964

At the start of the next academic year, in October, the proctors tried to draw a line around the whole affair. The university set up a committee, chaired by E. T. Williams, warden of Rhodes House, to review the power of the proctors, in particular "whether or not the present provisions governing their exercise require modification. "108 The review "is very good news," Abrahams told a national daily and, perhaps indulging in ironic hyperbole, said: "There will be widespread joy among undergraduates. "109 Some fellows, however, had concerns. One defender of the proctorial system, writing to the university's in-house magazine for faculty members, worried that if the university had treated the students as citizens who were answerable to the police rather than to the proctors, "a considerably higher proportion of the undergraduate body would now be in borstal [youth detention center] than is the case under the present privileged position. "110